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Conference Types
Different conference types are available according to their initiation modes:
reservationless conferences and scheduled conferences.
On-demand Conferences (Reservationless
Conferencing)
Reservationless conferencing enables you to immediately start and connect
to On Going conferences from your endpoint, with no advanced scheduling.
The MGC Manager offers two methods for Reservation-less conferencing:
• Ad Hoc Conferencing
• Meeting Rooms
Ad Hoc Conferencing
In Ad Hoc conferencing, the participant connects to an Ad Hoc-enabled
Entry Queue. An Entry Queue is a special routing lobby to which one or
more dial-in numbers are assigned. The participant is prompted for the
destination conference Numeric ID. If no conference with a matching
Numeric ID is running, the system creates a new On Going conference,
provided the participant has the permission to do so. The new conference is
created according to the conference parameters defined in a Profile assigned
to the Entry Queue. In this method, the conference Profile is created only
once, and is used repeatedly to create numerous conferences.
This conferencing method is often used to globally enable all employees in
an organization to start On Going Conferences from their endpoints, without
having to define the conference parameters for each employee and for each
conference.
When authentication with external database application is configured for the
Entry Queue and for the conference, the MCU verifies with the external